Word Meanings - BALLASTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

Related words: (words related to BALLASTING)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BALLASTAGE
  A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BALLASTING
  That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.
• BALLAST
  Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. 2. Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness. 3. Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the
• STEADY
  stedig sterile, barren, stæ, steady , D. stedig, stadig, 1. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. "The softest, steadiest plume." Keble. Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• WATER BALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• UNBALLASTED
  Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• LAND OF STEADY HABITS
  Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws of the early period.
• UNBALLAST
  To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from. Totten.